On 16 Sep, this message from Andy Bastien echoed through cyberspace: > First question: This beast has two ethernet cards that I haven't been > able to get working; does any know for sure whether these cards do > work? > > The first is a Scitex LANC Fast Ethernet card. I don't know much > about this one; I understand that they are used to run SciLAN, which > is some sort of proprietary networking system that runs on top of > ethernet. Supposedly the cards can be used as straight ethernet, but > I have no idea what driver to use (I don't even have MacOS drivers for > it). It has SMC, Altera, and PLX chips, but I don't know which would > be relevant.
SMC and PLX are important. PLX do make lots of PCI<->IO bus bridges, I hope it doesn't mean that your card uses an ISA Ethernet chip :-). > The second is an AsanteFAST 10/100 PCI Card with a Digital 21140-AF > chip. I've tried using the tulip and old_tulip modules with 2.2.21 > built from source, and ng_tulip with the Debian 2.2.20-pmac kernels. > None of these has worked. Any ideas? Any error messages? Something in the logs? First thing: make sure you _do_ get a 2.4 kernel to boot; AFAIR 2.2 kernels wil not see both of your PCI buses. Then, once you get this solved (or even before just to see...) send along the output of 'lspci -vv', so we can see what chips are detected on your PCI bus. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
